Flashback (narrative)
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A flashback, more formally known as analepsis, is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story. Flashbacks are often used to recount events that happe
Count Ugolino in Cocytus tells Dante of his death in prison with his descendants (Stradanus)
Ugolino della Gherardesca
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Ugolino della Gherardesca, Count of Donoratico, was an Italian nobleman, politician and naval commander. He was frequently accused of treason and features prominently in Dante's Divine Comedy.
Flashback (narrative)
…Count Ugolino in Cocytus tells Dante of his death in prison with his descendants (Stradanus) A flashback, more formally known as analepsis, is an interjected scene…
Portrait of Ugolino by Johann Kaspar Lavater
Ugolino and his sons by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, 1861, Petit Palais.
Torre della Muda, Giovanni Paolo Lasinio, engravings dated 1865.
Dante and Virgil in the Inferno before Ugolino and His Sons by Priamo della Quercia (15th century)